Time Collapses — 2012

I Hear Your Protests

Completed 12:00 pm, 8/6/2009, 6 Manik/Deer (composition info, including Mayan calendar date)

While it's not meant to make anyone uncomfortable, only to be honest, I hear your protests, your disagreements, you know.  The tie we have works both ways.  Though only sometimes I answer, know that you are heard.  How could it be otherwise, when all are one?  (We all actually hear each others' thoughts; we are just not accustomed to listening.*)

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This post will likely arouse a bit of discomfort with its plain talk.  There is absolutely no desire to offend or minimize anyone, here. We all have an ego, which can get pretty feisty, even when no offense is offered, so that's fair warning.**

Perhaps I just feel like being an ass, but I will also offer a little reminder: irritation, itself, is a sign of not being centered.  There, I play the ass, you get the benefit.

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Some feel I take too much on the self, purporting to speak for God.  No, I do not speak for God, not at all.  God simply uses me to speak.  There is quite a difference.  Do you see it?  I don't identify with it, just feel blessed by it, just let it flow through, for I know that "None but God is good."

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This is not a mental mind, an ego, coming in and saying, “Oh, I am great.  I have a message for you, and it is from God, so you’d better listen...yes, listen, if you know what’s good for you!”  Ha, what a hoot!  I am just another one who walks the path Homeward; nothing special.  Nothing any more special than you, than anyone.  (Paradoxically, each and all are uniquely special, of course :-)

This entry may well limit my audience to the mystics among us, and those of sufficient advancement on the spiritual path to have cut the tie, or dis-identified with what Eckhart calls the pain body, or the ego.  Ah well, such is life.  I love the truth; it's worth more than praise or blame.

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Nor do I claim to be the source or fount for truth, lol.  Just like everyone else, I simply do the best I can.  
 
I will mention projection here.  Please call to mind how, when we are angered, offended, or hurt, the offense lies in us, not in anything 'out there,' for there really is nothing out there, at all... Quantum physics rules, for it shows how we create what we see.  (I also recommend Ivan Stein's YouTubed workshops entitled Positive Manifestation.)

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So, just consider the possibility, when some judgment arises, that the origin is within.  Could that be you, responding to yourself?  We all have to look within for it, for no one can do our inner work for us.  To project is to risk missing the message, of course.  What we are, inside, we project on the screen of the world outside.

Thus, we hear our thoughts spoken by those around us, we see our prejudices acted out, seemingly ‘out there,’ in the world, often responding emotionally to the external situations.  That is, until we realize that there really is no ‘out there’ at all; it is all an inside job.  The ‘out there’ only appears; it has no solid reality, in spite of what appears.

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I won’t do much explaining like this, for it engages the mental mind.  That is not my choice of abode, for I would far rather rest in spirit, in soul, than in mind, which cannot take us Home.  This is life from the mystic's perspective. 

So, what may have been missed is that generally, as I write I step aside, allowing the self to be danced by the great Dancer, whom many call God.  One forgets, sometimes, to listen from within, where these things are clear, where we are tutored, and where projection does not arise...

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Ah, this “God” word is problematic, for many respond to it.  It has so many thoughts/feelings/attitudes quite stuck to it, that it's best to stop using it, entirely.  One only uses words to communicate, after all—that is their purpose—and if a word does not communicate what one would share, one selects a better word.

How about 'Source'?  Let’s use that one.  It's certainly shorter than the one often used by the Sirian High Council:  'All That Is, That Ever Was and That Always Will Be.'  This, while completely accurate as both name and description of God, is a bit unwieldy.  The Pleiadians use 'Prime Creator.'

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They're all just words, of course.  I don't think Source is offended by our attempts to find the right word-symbol for Him/Her/It/Them.  Source, in my experience, has just as good and even better sense of humor than any of us, and can surely understand the awkward mire we often entangle ourselves in.

We forget that they're just words, and words are just complex symbols, made up of other little symbols, and have no inherent meaning of their own...well, excepting Hebrew, I guess.  Anyway, you get the point.  Let's not get so narrowly focused that we make fools of ourselves.  (Gee, with me being the only one talking, I guess I'm the only one at risk for that.  Hmmm. :-)

We all know about being danced, don’t we?  Perhaps my familiarity with it comes from my time spent with the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, and perhaps his source for this, Father Anthony de Mello (whose great work, 'Awareness' really tells it like it is.)  These wise ones both speak of the great Dancer and His dance.

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Some say life is a dance, and we are the dancer, but not these two.  They speak of Source, or God, as the ultimate Dancer, dancing life into manifestation.  We, then, rather than smaller dancers, are the dance, itself, are being danced.  We are actually the dance done by Source.  It is rather beautiful.

At first, the mental mind will simply bounce off such an idea, such a picture—for how can one imagine God dancing?  If one persists, though, it comes clearer.  This is one of those areas where the mental mind is not of much use, for it brings a higher understanding, a more heart-felt, even visceral one; one experiences it...especially as one develops the listening ear, within.  This is heart understanding.

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What gift can I leave with you, before I close, today?  I cannot know; only Source can know that.  All I can do is be danced, is surrender this self to the dance, and trust and know that all is well, all is truly well.  Love to you then, dear soul.  May you find your self in me, as we are danced, together...as One.  This is my hope.  ☼

*  Others' thoughts often come to us as hunches, impulses, ideas...  Also, since our world is based on our beliefs, if we don't know of the telepathy that comes with our oneness, then we don't allow it in—it does not exist for us.

** Here's a favorite saying of mine—don't know the source:  "It is just as harmful to take offense as it is to give offense."  Very powerful.

Self as Solar System

Oh, you know so much, inside of you. Chances are, though, that one doesn’t yet have full contact with it, though we do all have access to it. It is enough to be the source for endless amazement...and that is really something. Think on those words: source for endless amazement. Yes, right within you, me, all of us...

We have three years, dear friends, to do some pretty significant awakening. It is happening to everyone, all around us, too. Truly amazing! Time is being compressed, as it were, in seemingly impossible ways, as incredible lifetimes full of growth and development occur in a year, a month, a day. The Maya were right, you know, about us approaching the no-time, and how this all plays out. [MayanMajix.com link - is a great source for all things Mayan Calendar.]

Our ability to communicate with Spirit, with Source, develops perhaps the fastest. So many are trying our wings, being danced in the midst of this arising opening-up to communication. Perhaps one could consider me, and this blog, by way of training wheels, or even simple further confirmation for those who do just that. It seems Source may have that in mind...but who am I to say? :-) The message is unique, specific, for each one.

Now, know that I have absolutely no commercial interest in anything in this blog. Thus, when I link to something, or recommend something, it is merely to bring to you something I have found exciting, okay? Here, I would like to recommend something by Timothy Freke, a short little one-hour audio book called “Lucid Living: An Audio Book that Will Turn your World Inside Out.” The title is not an empty promise. We all serve in our own way.

Oh, and while I’m at it, Gregg Braden; practically anything by Gregg Braden is excellent, and pretty widely available on the Net. For those who like audio, he has many, many audio books, all pretty mind shattering...or at least expanding. ;-)

Okay, back to the within. That’s my favorite space. I come out into the without, i.e., physical life, only to touch down long enough to accomplish a certain inner purpose. Otherwise, you’ll find me pretty regularly within. Yes, that means you can link to me, too, should you desire to do so. Don’t forget, we’re all one. There’s practically no end of the delight one can find in that.

Okay, wait; a moment more on the without. When I say non-commercial, I mean it. I do not intend nor recommend that you buy anything from anyone. That is always fully and only your choice. What I will say, however, and this is a word to the wise: so very much is available, for the googling, on the Internet. In addition, I will mention a real favorite website for the written word, which is Scribd.com. Be sure you spell it wrong; yep, wrong. There is endless fun to be had, here.

Okay, now back to the within, and to being a solar system. Let’s start with the earth, first, though. With quantum physics as foundation, showing us that all is but one field, with physical ‘stuff’ arising as vibration out of the Field. That’s what we are: vibration, frequency. Everything is that. All of our senses are simply various frequency detectors, frequency translators. Taste, touch, sound...all of it is simply vibration.

Okay, with that as basis, let’s also remember that we are not the body. We have a body, we wear a body, off and on, but we are not the body...unless we identify with it. Time to stop doing that, for sure. Okay, now, this body that we wear is composed of the same exact stuff as the planet; nothing more, though somewhat less, of course. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and all that.

So, now suitably dis-identified from the form we wear, can you see it, the body, as a cell in the body of Terra, of Gaia? Try that on for size. I am a cell in the body of Gaia. There is a whole world (ho ho) to be discovered just in this meditation or exercise. That is but the beginning of what I would share, here, though. Oh yes, we are off on a real cosmic excursion, today.

Okay, next step: you contain the world. Expand out; you contain Gaia. How do this? Well, the way I do it is to see the self as a sphere of rainbow-colored light. As a light sphere, size is easily manipulated. Perhaps this will work for you, too. Do your own thing, though; you may have or find a better one.

Yes, I know, this pretzels the mind. First I tell you to be a cell in the body of Gaia, and then to expand out and contain her. Do consider, for a moment; might that not be a very good thing, to pretzel (or twist all up) the mind? The mind will not get us where we are going, after all. Just a thought.

Okay, how are you doing? Are you a great big luminous sphere, yet, containing the planet? Once you first do this, you will find how easily done it really is.

Remember, if you’re having a hard time, it’s probably because you are still trying to use the mind. Won’t work. Try going into the heart to visualize this. There is infinite space, in there. (Hush up, mind; no contradicting. Just listen, and learn.)

Okay, now, let’s reach out and contain the sun. Don’t worry about relative sizes, or anything like that. Just envision both sun and earth within the radiant sphere of light that is you. You can do this; I promise. Just look, that brilliant, blazing, flaming ball of awesome light, right there, inside your self. Wow! Amazing. Both sun, and earth.

Yes, I hear the little minds humming away; there are more planets in that picture. What about Mercury and Venus? And the moon? Hush; be patient. Unless, of course, this has helped your visualization to contain and encompass these inner planets and moons; that would be good. See them, there, within.

From here, it is not too much of a stretch to expand out further, and consume, or subsume, all the outer planets and the asteroid belt, as well. Just reach out, and do that, now. Got ‘em all? I’ll give you a moment...

Okay, let’s just rest now, for a while, being the solar system. We contain the whole solar system, within this lovely luminous sphere of the self. We are that, for now. We contain that. That floats freely, within us. Just be there, with it.

Now, just like the earth meditation mentioned earlier, this solar system meditation is a great door into many grand adventures. Trust me on this one. It’s safe, and a great meditation. Becoming the body of the G-word, of Source. One could spend endless days, weeks, months exploring this, and really be amazed.

Of course, in addition to being a meditation, it is (or can be) also very real. You really are that. We are one, remember? That includes everything; all of it, solar system, included. So don’t be surprised to find some accurate information coming through.

Don’t get too lost in it, either, though. Watch out for ego, always. Just be aware.

Enjoy the meditation. More later. Good day (though this rather loses its meaning in today’s context, doesn’t it?)

Chop Wood, Carry Water or Heed the Emotions

Sunday, 9/6/2009, 11 Edznab/Flint (Composition info, including Mayan calendar day)

Those at all familiar with Buddhism will recognize the title of today’s blog:  chop wood, carry water.  It is said that a very large part of life is spent in one’s daily chores, such as (once upon a time) chopping wood for the fire, and carrying water for cooking and cleaning.  Today it is more often go to work, go home, make the meals, go shopping, etc.  Same diff.

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Many yet believe that, with 'enlightenment' (whatever that is,) one's whole world is instantly changed.  The tie to Buddhism in the title quote is the master's teaching regarding enlightenment:
    Before enlightenment one chops wood, and carries water.  After enlightenment, one chops wood and carries water.
Kind of unavoidable, the daily chores.  And, even after massive internal changes, what changes on the outside?  In this sense, not so much; the trash still has to go out, the pets still have to be fed...

In other senses much does happen, of course...yet opposites can both be true.  Perhaps you've found, as I have, that wisdom often takes the form of paradox?  Either that, or Source just has an odd sense of humor...or both.

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Anyway, since we are the actual and literal creator of our world, we have far more power over it than most realize.  Not, perhaps, to produce enlightenment on demand — we're not quite God, yet, ho ho — but certainly to make major changes.  That is another story, however, so back to chopping wood...

There is something very wise about this saying.  It points to a certain flow and rhythm of life.  It can be seen in nature with just a cursory glance.  The bees don’t first eat the pollen, then go out and collect it.  One must first chop the wood before lighting the fire.

I know, d'uh... Very basic; but often still missed by the spiritual seeker.  There is a fundamental and cyclic order and rhythm to life that also applies to awakening — which is more often a process than a moment.

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How is this basic life rhythm often missed by the seeker?  Maybe how not to miss it is more to the point.  Balance is not rightly honored in the West, today.   Nature's rhythms won’t be missed if one first elevates balance to its rightful place.  Though true balance is present in the fundamental process, cycles, and orderliness of life, we don't usually see it. 

Instead, we tend to focus on one thing, one aspect, to the exclusion of all else, thinking enlightenment is somehow hidden within this practice, that book, this teacher, that workshop... We all know the drill, because we've all been there at one point or another along our path.  (Let s/he who is immune self-question whether s/he is truly vital and alive.)

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Actually, this is admirable.  Yeah, notice how quick we are to self-condemn.  One can be admired for devotion and dedication to awakening.  This is what Sri Nisargadatta might call earnestness, which he considers the principle ingredient in a successful spiritual search.  Some call it sincerity.  Under any name, it is good; perhaps just a little exaggerated, or misguided, but that's fine.  Perfectionists don't make it far along a true spiritual path. 

Regardless, let us see it is wise to never condemn the self for anything at all.  I don’t care if you have murdered, robbed, or whatever; nothing merits self-condemnation, so lighten up on yourself, okay?  I will, too.

We get what we focus on, so let's not go there.  Self-condemnation is a dead end, with no usefulness at all.  Life will take care of those things, anyway, without you minding the store (since consequences just naturally flow). 

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Balance points to a higher wisdom.  Balance teaches us.  If we watch and imitate nature (be reasonable, here - no literalists, please ✗), we experience the beauty of flowing in alternating cycles of work, then stillness.  One chops wood, carries water, starts the fire, cooks the meal, eats, pauses—cleans-up the mess, then rests and does nothing for a while...hopefully.  This is, at least, a natural progression.

A certain underlying wisdom can be found this way — if one has the patience for it.  The body knows what it needs, too, if one will just listen to it.  We often reject this idea, either because it seems too simple, or for lack of the patience to prove it out.  Everything rests on the attention; to 'listen to the body' is simply to center one's attention there.  Subtle, but powerful.

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The mind can be a useful servant, too, if kept in proper perspective.  What happens, however, is that one gets out of balance, usually through either persistent activity or through too much rest.  Balance can be maintained if one meanders and flows, like nature.

The self simply flows in the dance if the inner wisdom allowed to rule.  Well, one has to know this inner wisdom is there, of course...but now you do, so no more excuses.

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What does being out of balance look like?  Try anxiety.  Maybe depression; even anger.  The emotions are the key that something is amiss.  Quite often it simply takes the form of necessary chores (note, ‘necessary,' not nit-picky), gone undone.  Even the least disturbance (in the feelings) has a message.

Subtle, perhaps, but this is not for the 'type A' personalities among us, deeply involved in the world and its dramas.  Perhaps all of us, when first starting out on the spiritual path, were very much in the world.  'Properly' trained by society, we had both the non-stop brain chatter and the internal tension that combined to make us insensitive to subtle emotional cues.  We can remember that.

Sure, I make the assumption that you are on the spiritual path, and headed Homeward, to Source.  That’s not such a great stretch; if you’re following this blog, you must be.  Don’t see how you could stand it, otherwise!

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We need to have come a long way, though, and have attained at least some element of sporadic peace in order to carry out this prescription.  Otherwise, how will we be able to even hear the body's inner wisdom when it speaks, amidst the cacophony of the inner soap opera, the outer chaos?

Spending time in nature is good for healing, for peace.  It has the potential to bring mind and body to peace faster than most remedies.  Gaia, too, has her own innate wisdom, and can read exactly what is needed by each of us. Earth, herself, through nature, will stealthily supply what is needed if we will just take the body/mind into nature and relax...spend some time.  (This does not mean taking the ipod, the homework, or the briefcase along, either.)

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As an example, let’s say you are writing, like I am, now..and you come upon a block.  Nothing else will come.  You’re stumped.  Now, hopefully you have the wisdom to know that continuing to write, anyway, is not a good choice.  Your readers will not appreciate it - and that's if you get it past your editor.

Instead, I invite you to consider chopping wood...or yes, carrying water, or whatever could use doing that will get you up and about.  Take out the trash, for goodness' sake; do the dishes; take a walk...  Something surely needs doing.  Did I say subtle?  Must have been mistaken ;-)

There is that natural rhythm, present in all of nature, from which humanity has so distanced itself, in separatist arrogance and pride (following the logical pattern of Newtonian physics), that it takes both time and persistence to get back into the flow.  It can be done, though, by one and all; the flow is there and present, always.  The marvel is that it always has been.

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All of life is intelligent.  A stone is intelligent.  A cell is quite intelligent.  Even a dish is intelligent; it has to be, if the photons that compose it are intelligent and aware —and they are.   Today's science is a lot more exciting and mystifying than our grandparents' science.  (Let's have some trust for quantum science, now.  This may sound 'way out,' but it is based on fact...or at least one way of viewing the facts ;-)

Until we dump our reliance on Newton's physics, which look on the Cosmos as a lifeless machine made of inert parts, and people just as more parts, composed of smaller and smaller parts — i.e., the reductionist view — we will not know.  Though those physics were seriously outdated by 1926, most of us weren't looking.  Being so married to the old, we were unable to see the new (quantum physics).

Ah, thank God/Source, that times, they are a’ changin’.  It’s that mental mind thing, at heart, that led us astray.  Actually, it is our reliance on it that was the problem.  There is nothing inherently wrong with the mind.  It just is what it is.  Our problem was making a god of it, of sorts, and then identifying with it.  That was a rather huge detour.

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No worries, though; all is well.  Peace, internal peace is a choice we can always make.  Which is not to say it will arrive all in a bundle, neatly packaged, ready to open up into instant peace...whatever that is.  Not.  It's a bit more subtle than that.

One calls a thing forth, sets the intention, and then lets it go, to begin watching, observing.  My thing will come to me, but I must know it, and then be alert to signs of its coming...and finally, cooperate.

Yeah, this is a community thing; no such thing as 'alone,' anymore.  Rather, in the midst of quantum entanglement, we are all-one.  (Ever notice how your 'thing,' whatever you call forth, always seems to come to you through the activities of other people?)

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On my path it has been the emotions, not the mental mind (for there is a Higher Mind), that were the way to return to Source, to God.  Gosh, don’t listen to the words; they’re terrible.  Of course we are and have always been one with Source.  Source never went anywhere ‘else,’ lol; where else would 'else' be? 

We left, however, in consciousness.  There being free will, our leaving was respected.  On the Creator's out-going breath we went, out and about; by this time reaching perhaps the farthest point ever, in the Kali Yuga.*  Now, it’s hoooooome we gooooooooooooo!!!  Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!

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Yeah, let’s have some fun with this.  Why not, after all?  And what’s the hurry, anyway?  Has hurry gotten anyone anywhere that s/he wants to go anytime sooner? ( What do we do with all those minutes saved by the microwave, anyway??  Not a very useful device, imho; all it seems to do is disrupt the previously more natural, healthy flow of meal times...and cell biology.)

So, once one has seen through the mental mind, realizing its complete inability to enter the sacred spaces of Higher consciousness, the silence, one is ready for the trek.  The next step for me was heart-centering, which proved most helpful.  There is something both sacred and unique about the heart space, and about the other heart chakra, the Secret Chamber of the Heart, in particular.

This is not the centrally placed heart chakra, with which all are pretty familiar, but the other, even more sacred space.  Within the Secret Chamber of the Heart is anchored the three-fold flame, the literal 'spark' of each one’s identity.  Since this is not an esoteric blog, and I am no one’s teacher, just another walker along the Way, I will leave it at that.

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For those who are curious, The Summit Lighthouse [http://tsl.org search - index] offers teachings on this very special chakra, called a secret-ray chakra.  You have visited this inner space if you ever found yourself in an interior chamber where the ‘air’ itself seems to be both pink and golden, simultaneously, yet each color somehow retains its own identity.  Most unearthly.

Heart centering has become such a special thing for me, in either heart chakra.   It seems we've all been somehow programmed to act like computer chips, safely tucked away in the cranial CPU.  Just learning to re-locate outside of the head is massively helpful, lol.  It's all downhill from there.

Let's all agree to remember — our natural state is bliss!  Blessings be on your day, your night.  Good-bye, for now.


PS  I first encountered this whole concept (the wisdom of the natural flow) in an excellent little book from the Eckhart Tolle Recommended Reading list, The Wisdom Way of Knowing - Reclaiming an Ancient Traditon to Awaken the Heart, by Cynthia Bourgealt.  I highly recommend it.

*An age of humanity or creation sometimes called "the dark age" or the "age of vice" [Wikipedia.entry: Kali Yuga]